Jim and Lefty couldn’t believe it. Like many guys, they were secretly addicted to the afternoon soap opera “Days of Our Lives”, and now it was going to be cancelled. Lefty was on his way to Barnes and Noble to check for collections of past seasons on DVD; Jim was going to check Amazon and, as a last resort, maybe eBay for pirated copies from China or Bulgaria . . .

It seems the EPA had decided that elk, like their bovine cousins the cows, created significant amounts of high carbon gas in the digestive process. To stop global warming, it was necessary to fit these elk with a new catalytic converter, and the boys from Washington DC were here in Montana looking for the first recipients. Bruce (with antlers) figured these DC guys had to be a couple of chips short of a motherboard . . .